On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon!
Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and descended down to the moon in the lunar module Antares. Their descent was a little chaotic. A faulty switch was sending "abort" signals to the landing module's computer, and NASA had to reprogram the computer before they could land. Then the landing radar failed to measure the module's altitude and descent speed. The problem fixed itself just in time, and Shepard manually landed the spacecraft right on target.
Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and descended down to the moon in the lunar module Antares. Their descent was a little chaotic. A faulty switch was sending "abort" signals to the landing module's computer, and NASA had to reprogram the computer before they could land. Then the landing radar failed to measure the module's altitude and descent speed. The problem fixed itself just in time, and Shepard manually landed the spacecraft right on target.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03On February 5th, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon.
00:08Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard and the Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell
00:12left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module
00:15and descended down to the moon in the Lunar Module Antares.
00:18Their descent was a little chaotic.
00:21A faulty switch was sending abort signals to the landing module's computer
00:24and NASA had to reprogram the computer before they could land.
00:27Then the landing radar failed to measure the module's altitude and descent speed.
00:31The problem fixed itself just in time,
00:33and Shepard manually landed the spacecraft right on target.
00:36And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:39NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology